EYLES, Geoffrey

1906 - 1965

Geoffrey Eyles was born at Wangford, near Lowestoft, Suffolk on 7 November 1906, youngest of the five children of Charles Eyles and his wife Emma Mary née Lucas (1866-1928), who married at Hackney, London in 1894, Geoffrey was a brother to Derek Charles Eyles. Sometime between his birth and 1911, the family moved from Suffolk to 'Rydal', Tennyson Road, Harpenden, Hertfordshire. Trained in art by his father and dducated at Bembridge School on the Isle of Wight where he won several prizes for his artwork and and, like his brother, became an illustrator, and worked for the University Press, illustrating 'Round the World' series in 1937 and 'Along the Line' in 1938 also 'Air Land and Sea' he also illustrated several books including 'Wings Over Land and Sea' (1937). In 1939, an unmarried commercial artist, living at 16 Spencer Road, Harpenden, Hertfordshire. He married at Henley-on-Thames in 1946, Joan Mary Payze (1920-) and had two sons Robert Geoffrey, (born 1948) a sculptor, and Nicholas Alan (born 1958), a scientist. Geoffrey Eyles died at 78 Loom Lane, Radlett, Hertfordshire on 5 November 1965, aged 58, leaving his estate to his widow.

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